• Title/Summary/Keyword: positive curvature

Search Result 114, Processing Time 0.023 seconds

ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUP OF MANIFOLDS WITH POSITIVE SCALAR CURVATURE

  • Kim, Jin-Hong;Park, Han-Chul
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.48 no.1
    • /
    • pp.129-140
    • /
    • 2011
  • The aim of this paper is to study the structure of the fundamental group of a closed oriented Riemannian manifold with positive scalar curvature. To be more precise, let M be a closed oriented Riemannian manifold of dimension n (4 $\leq$ n $\leq$ 7) with positive scalar curvature and non-trivial first Betti number, and let be $\alpha$ non-trivial codimension one homology class in $H_{n-1}$(M;$\mathbb{R}$). Then it is known as in [8] that there exists a closed embedded hypersurface $N_{\alpha}$ of M representing $\alpha$ of minimum volume, compared with all other closed hypersurfaces in the homology class. Our main result is to show that the fundamental group ${\pi}_1(N_{\alpha})$ is always virtually free. In particular, this gives rise to a new obstruction to the existence of a metric of positive scalar curvature.

SELF-DUAL EINSTEIN MANIFOLDS OF POSITIVE SECTIONAL CURVATURE

  • Ko, Kwanseok
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
    • /
    • v.13 no.1
    • /
    • pp.51-59
    • /
    • 2005
  • Let (M, $g$) be a compact oriented self-dual 4-dimensional Einstein manifold with positive sectional curvature. Then we show that, up to rescaling and isometry, (M, $g$) is $S^4$ or $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}_2$, with their cannonical metrics.

  • PDF

Constant scalar curvature on open manifolds with finite volume

  • Kim, Seong-Tag
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.12 no.1
    • /
    • pp.101-108
    • /
    • 1997
  • We let (M,g) be a noncompact complete Riemannina manifold of dimension $n \geq 3$ with finite volume and positive scalar curvature. We show the existence of a conformal metric with constant positive scalar curvature on (M,g) by gluing solutions of Yamabe equation on each compact subsets $K_i$ with $\cup K_i = M$ .

  • PDF

A STUDY ON SUBMANIFOLDS OF CODIMENSION 2 IN A SPHERE

  • Baik, Yong-Bai;Kim, Dae-Kyung
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.25 no.2
    • /
    • pp.171-174
    • /
    • 1988
  • Let M be an n-dimensional compact connected and oriented Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed in an (n+2)-dimensional Euclidean space $R^{n+2}$. Moore [5] proved that if M is of positive curvature, then M is a homotopy sphere. This result is generalized by Baldin and Mercuri [2], Baik and Shin [1] to the case of non-negative curvature, which is stated as follows: If M of non-negative curvature, then M is either a homotopy sphere or diffeomorphic to a product of two spheres. In particular, if there is a point at which the curvature operator is positive, then M is homeomorphic to a sphere.e.

  • PDF

COHOMOGENEITY ONE RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS OF CONSTANT POSITIVE CURVATURE

  • Abedi, Hosein;Kashani, Seyed Mohammad Bagher
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.44 no.4
    • /
    • pp.799-807
    • /
    • 2007
  • In this paper we study non-simply connected Riemannian manifolds of constant positive curvature which have an orbit of codimension one under the action of a connected closed Lie subgroup of isometries. When the action is reducible we characterize the orbits explicitly. We also prove that in some cases the manifold is homogeneous.

GENERALIZED MYERS THEOREM FOR FINSLER MANIFOLDS WITH INTEGRAL RICCI CURVATURE BOUND

  • Wu, Bing-Ye
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.56 no.4
    • /
    • pp.841-852
    • /
    • 2019
  • We establish the generalized Myers theorem for Finsler manifolds under integral Ricci curvature bound. More precisely, we show that the forward complete Finsler n-manifold whose part of Ricci curvature less than a positive constant is small in $L^p$-norm (for p > n/2) have bounded diameter and finite fundamental group.

RICCI AND SCALAR CURVATURES ON SU(3)

  • Kim, Hyun-Woong;Pyo, Yong-Soo;Shin, Hyun-Ju
    • Honam Mathematical Journal
    • /
    • v.34 no.2
    • /
    • pp.231-239
    • /
    • 2012
  • In this paper, we obtain the Ricci curvature and the scalar curvature on SU(3) with some left invariant Riemannian metric. And then we get a necessary and sufficient condition for the scalar curvature (resp. the Ricci curvature) on the Riemannian manifold SU(3) to be positive.

RIGIDITY OF COMPLETE RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS WITH VANISHING BACH TENSOR

  • Huang, Guangyue;Ma, Bingqing
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.56 no.5
    • /
    • pp.1341-1353
    • /
    • 2019
  • For complete Riemannian manifolds with vanishing Bach tensor and positive constant scalar curvature, we provide a rigidity theorem characterized by some pointwise inequalities. Furthermore, we prove some rigidity results under an inequality involving $L^{\frac{n}{2}}$-norm of the Weyl curvature, the traceless Ricci curvature and the Sobolev constant.